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<emphasis id="AF0E6DE93803242DF08BA36D1DD058CF" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="C69250B8E63A107BD46A51606DE32B69" italics="true" pageNumber="790">[Xerus (Euxerus)] erythropus</emphasis>
(E.
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)
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,
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in: Cat. Mamm.
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. Hist. Nat., Paris: 178
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<paragraph id="2489E6FC5B112E2C141A8E23EE4AD531" pageNumber="790">
<emphasis id="A2DBF1C6B7EF7EE6F54B098F1DB8D100" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="790">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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<collectingCountry id="831D309CDCA860CE53A042ABAB652597" name="Senegal">Senegal</collectingCountry>
(
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). Origin of original type unknown. &quot;Inconnue.&quot;
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.
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<paragraph id="DFC56E8A7E65B3546E2D027B15E37A26" pageNumber="790">
<emphasis id="7A96C83E3CC445A7FF8DF6552F11ABC6" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="790">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="13F8A75F95332509CAD6E5741A9848B3" language="eng" pageNumber="790">Striped Ground Squirrel</vernacularName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="271A9534116A905ED81F4FC734F5C101" pageNumber="790">
<emphasis id="81A177066E07CFA9C311DBE156629DDD" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="790">Subspecies:</emphasis>
:
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Subspecies
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<emphasis id="14DBC0C73FB0C6956A385535E93C38AC" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus</emphasis>
subsp.
<emphasis id="9B9F9CB294302F8CB7CEE770BC59C5B1" italics="true" pageNumber="790">erythropus</emphasis>
E.
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<paragraph id="7595675CB5ED2F37BEFFD7221648D44C" pageNumber="790">
Subspecies
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<emphasis id="3D547C868AE2ECCF2CE629C15937F3E5" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus</emphasis>
subsp.
<emphasis id="E10AA8348F46FD61820AE49C2A5D3D4E" italics="true" pageNumber="790">chadensis</emphasis>
Thomas 1905
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F5169186E4F3C06A4B39D2987C97CE1B" pageNumber="790">
Subspecies
<taxonomicName id="1F2E6078EDB45E38FE4C2A840AB26FC9" authority="Thomas 1905" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1905" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Xerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="790" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="erythropus" subGenus="Euxerus" subSpecies="lacustris">
<emphasis id="FC9F4798E9EAFCE431B32743E36B7456" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus</emphasis>
subsp.
<emphasis id="15484A81F83E99627786DFA2A0168EBC" italics="true" pageNumber="790">lacustris</emphasis>
Thomas 1905
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A95B5D3B050CD71A1E9124027F9E6246" pageNumber="790">
Subspecies
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<emphasis id="1576E0712114662C0D31427796A42AB2" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus</emphasis>
subsp.
<emphasis id="8DB7053F9B6053AFA5B6B4AED1E85D58" italics="true" pageNumber="790">leucoumbrinus</emphasis>
Rüppell 1835
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="384BAAEC971280DA662AC5A125343E9E" pageNumber="790">
Subspecies
<taxonomicName id="1872359F40ADB2489473D9E7B8EE4F86" authority="Thomas and Hinton 1923" authorityName="Thomas and Hinton" authorityYear="1923" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Xerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="790" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="erythropus" subGenus="Euxerus" subSpecies="limitaneus">
<emphasis id="21038D3AD32EE4F431F13005F3340BCA" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus</emphasis>
subsp.
<emphasis id="09C6566BCBA4F905D8EC0C241079C431" italics="true" pageNumber="790">limitaneus</emphasis>
Thomas and
<bibRefCitation id="2745F737F3D4B82B75B0A8C89283E027" author="Hinton, M. A. C." refId="ref153971" refString="Hinton, M. A. C. 1923. On the voles collected by Mr. G. Forrest in Yunnan; with remarks upon the genera Eothenomys and Neodon and upon their allies. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 11: 145 - 162." year="1923">Hinton 1923</bibRefCitation>
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</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6C88CDD7F05055D476FED90AA8BBEF7E" pageNumber="790">
Subspecies
<taxonomicName id="4B598C476D9352B4EA713D8EAD5657A1" authority="Thomas 1905" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1905" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Xerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="790" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="erythropus" subGenus="Euxerus" subSpecies="microdon">
<emphasis id="4FB2E13FCBA99EFDAC74D68F753DBAAD" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus</emphasis>
subsp.
<emphasis id="FBFF01090F19447A249143EB1935E95C" italics="true" pageNumber="790">microdon</emphasis>
Thomas 1905
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<paragraph id="50BC4B6E59F3E059A23A2C164CC15484" pageNumber="790">
<emphasis id="FB077F5501BF04F4C01A8DB867E8C7BE" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="790">Distribution:</emphasis>
SE
<collectingCountry id="7C5695B497A422DF60A2790D97554770" name="Morocco">Morocco</collectingCountry>
, S
<collectingCountry id="A53234BA393C624563E0B0C600CE70D6" name="Mauritania">Mauritania</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="FA3306B58559AD08E4A65B90DBFAA2FA" name="Senegal">Senegal</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="84F0CAE6161D85EBC8B062CE930AB73E" name="Gambia">Gambia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="CF9918F7CC2EB01199AC112648300686" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
<collectingRegion id="BBE87C9A0AFF9582BA8D37156A2C0D40" country="Guinea-Bissau" name="Bissau">Bissau</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCountry id="9EB190BFCA1F38BFECA910D44ECDF216" name="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="03833BB84CD5286F55266B8329F950E1" name="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</collectingCountry>
, Côte dIvoire, S
<collectingCountry id="DA28CFA24D12F1C011B587BC5C80855B" name="Serbia">Mali</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="8E2E44EA787849E2AC63D729DCFCA929" name="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="913E1ECEBAB3138C1D4D48430EACCD4B" name="Ghana">Ghana</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="4738D66841B06AB99A2D952AB624C69E" name="Togo">Togo</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="4BBA14F8A1F1AC8B21B138BA7F085FC1" name="Benin">Benin</collectingCountry>
, SE
<taxonomicName id="7D11470B43CE71A69D77861F474256B7" authority=", NE" authorityName="NE" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Sciurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="niger">Niger, NE</taxonomicName>
<collectingCountry id="E8A2CE5801A1E2B3ED287E7BCB2B9E66" name="Nigeria">Nigeria</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="AE631F81D7ACECE15D2CB7573D7AE308" name="Cameroon">Cameroon</collectingCountry>
, NE
<collectingCountry id="2E6B4C28139617E52846D40721E376B3" name="Republic of the Congo">Republic of Congo</collectingCountry>
, SE
<collectingCountry id="9F82CEF8342C523690F4332A963E4636" name="Chad">Chad</collectingCountry>
, NE
<collectingCountry id="FAE2F297471413D3CC31F0E3122E6CD1" name="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="4319D39EAAEEF6144742B595B48623F4" name="Sudan">Sudan</collectingCountry>
, Dem. Rep.
<collectingCountry id="8BE0AA330BB3C083F9ECD822CCD74E3D" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congo</collectingCountry>
, NW
<collectingCountry id="F0DF24E732AB4575824B4DFF2E9AAA0E" name="Uganda">Uganda</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="99C669C14D9E46627BAB22A749BD2950" name="Rwanda">Rwanda</collectingCountry>
, W
<collectingCountry id="A24445A86323DD2E7E2F1731FAA04549" name="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</collectingCountry>
, W
<collectingCountry id="3CAF2D8CC43494EA79219A1881B1668F" name="Kenya">Kenya</collectingCountry>
, N
<collectingCountry id="AE6DF8016D5671BBA6297E831936A281" name="Tanzania">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="4FFC12C4F4B0B5D8DB1CE064845C09B0" pageNumber="790">
<emphasis id="91ECFC026ED2E6D0C8238F02D20BA8B2" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="790">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="29942665B8FFC9C2A563E0744A67703C">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (lc).
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<subSubSection id="886A5946D492F8EAE519AA3081B284CF" pageNumber="790" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="5A3246A960894F2F6E534A4EE0B12550" pageNumber="790">
<emphasis id="84FA5D76995E65E5448CE9F620BD16ED" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="790">Discussion:</emphasis>
Placed in
<emphasis id="FDFD1783FB5E1A12DF41861D3D2B9773" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Euxerus</emphasis>
which is considered a subgenus of
<taxonomicName id="A9966CFDC1AD147BE331E4A0718FDE45" authorityName="Hemprich and Ehrenberg" authorityYear="1833" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Xerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1CFDEC3D004DB9D1A76AD6BAC9A7EE3C" italics="true" pageNumber="790">Xerus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="55BF553C3EFB42C56372100D0FA90D28" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92817" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp." year="1940">Ellerman (1940)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="320DB9CE9C41958197C966CC147C2533" author="Moore, J. C." refId="ref246108" refString="Moore, J. C. 1959. Relationships among the living squirrels of the Sciurinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 118 (4): 157 - 206." year="1959">Moore (1959)</bibRefCitation>
, and
<bibRefCitation id="2768F5D39F6A59843158A19CFA501C4D" author="Amtmann, E." refId="ref7849" refString="Amtmann, E. 1975. Family Sciuridae. Part 6. 1. Pp. 1 - 12, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 10 Dec 1975]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated." year="1975">Amtmann (1975)</bibRefCitation>
. The spelling
<emphasis id="EA85E4B9677EB1DFCE6589DF4CA7D3A1" italics="true" pageNumber="790">erythopus</emphasis>
was used by E.
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; Shinz, 1845, used the spelling
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<emphasis id="F277E79302A002248166E2A60E1FB2BC" italics="true" pageNumber="790">erythropus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Opinion 945 of the
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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1971
<emphasis id="0C48A868B5E360336DBD3C6F1126E213" italics="true" pageNumber="790">b</emphasis>
)
</bibRefCitation>
ruled that
<emphasis id="A26EFA29CC4A13F5E6BEBA3C45A42902" italics="true" pageNumber="790">erythopus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="7A065E1ED8DFEC0EEAA20242D96ABCFC" author="Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E." refId="ref118357" refString="Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1803. Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 272 pp." year="1803">Geoffroy, 1803</bibRefCitation>
be changed to
<taxonomicName id="BBF7A22344DEA3877527608AF1833046" baseAuthorityName="E. Geoffroy" baseAuthorityYear="1803" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Xerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythropus">
<emphasis id="E2D93EA83B5A2800A233D93CDD3A0907" italics="true" pageNumber="790">erythropus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as an incorrect original spelling; the proper latin root is &quot;erythro&quot;, and in the last 100 years nearly all authors have used the spelling
<taxonomicName id="FD4C1E75F9DD3204362145B76D744FF2" baseAuthorityName="E. Geoffroy" baseAuthorityYear="1803" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Xerus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythropus">
<emphasis id="EA83D10AF3817C4BEC83B4BE14F24B47" italics="true" pageNumber="790">erythropus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In the interest of orthographic stability we advocate that the specific name be spelled
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<emphasis id="6E769409E4DBA7436A11892CB36D43DD" italics="true" pageNumber="790">erythropus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It is not desirable to perpetuate the lapsus in spelling by early workers.
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